Hertz on track to electrify fleet by diversifying EV suppliers: Polestar fills Tesla’s gaps and may attract other manufacturers to help Hertz reach its goal of half a million rental EVs.

Demand for car rentals is plummeting, per Zeta Global, with regions with the highest gas prices, including California and the Northwest, experiencing the largest decreases. Business rebound? Business travel interest in the United States jumped by 365% in May after two months in a row of declining demand, per Zeta Global.

No industry has been as devastated by the coronavirus pandemic and its effects as travel. Airlines, car rental agencies, hotels and resorts, online booking services, cruises and destination marketing organizations, and business travel support services found their operations ground to a near-halt for much of Q2 2020, and the situation has barely improved in H2.

However, US travelers returned to airplanes, hotels, rental cars, trains, Airbnbs, cruises, and long-distance buses with greater gusto than expected last year. We now anticipate at least a couple more years of healthy growth before the rebound tails off. Most travel booking is conducted over the internet these days, so the digital figures are a proxy for the overall industry.

eMarketer was pleased to moderate a Tech-Talk Webinar featuring Criteo's Rory Mitchell, executive managing director, Americas. He discussed how travel and retail advertisers can prepare for the increase in travelers, and flight, hotel, and car rental bookings.

Digital ad spending across several industries in the UK has been up-and-down the past two years. There will be across-the-board growth this year, but at uneven rates, ranging from 33.0% for travel to 7.8% for automotive.

., 3-2-1 or 2-1), which rewards cardholders for travel-related purchases via the top tier (travel purchase examples include but are not limited to airline ticket, car rental, hotel stay, transit, and travel agency purchases; gas and dining purchases are excluded), or 2) a flat-rate program that offers miles as the primary rewards currency.

Travel: Includes airlines, car rental, hotels and resorts, cruises, and destination marketing organizations; includes leisure and unmanaged business travel. Other (industry): Includes categories that fall outside of those mentioned, such as real estate, manufacturing and industrial, education, and government. Overview of Our Digital Ad Spending Numbers by Industry.

After a complicated 2020, most industries in Germany will accelerate their digital ad spending growth in 2021. The rebound for travel and auto will underwhelm, but retail spend will soar.

And in August, Chase added rewards for hotel stays, dining purchases, and car rentals to its Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire Reserve premium travel cards. What’s next? Card issuers are positioned for big gains from the upcoming holiday season, which will top out at a whopping $1.147 trillion in US sales, per eMarketer forecasts from Insider Intelligence.

We define travel to include airlines, car rentals, hotels and resorts, online travel agencies, cruises, and destination marketing organizations, inclusive of leisure and business travel.

The reports in this collection look at ad spending in the retail, financial services, computing products and consumer electronics, automotive, telecom, travel, health and pharma, media and entertainment, and CPG industries. Countries covered in this report series include the US, UK, and Germany.

Cardholders earn 3 miles for every $1 spent on United purchases and 2 miles for every $1 spent on all other travel—including airfare, trains, local transit, cruise lines, hotels, car rentals, taxicabs, resorts, ride-sharing services, and tolls—as well as dining and streaming services. Customers also earn 1 mile for every $1 spent on all other purchases.